Electric-wire-cord coiler



1 April 1931- c. KLEMANN ET AL 1,800,542

ELECTRIC WIRE CORD COILER Filed Jan. 1928 Earl FPdztovz azd C/mrZas/Zkm/zmms Patented Apr. 14, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE? CHARLES KLEMANN, OF PALMYRA, AND F. PATTON, OF BERLIN, NEW LTERSEY ELECTRIC-WIRE-CORD GOILEB Serial No. 249,959.

The present invention relates to an imthrough the guide block, showing the coilproved electric wire cord or wire coiler, and

the purpose of the invention is to provide a device of this kind which is simple, efii- 5 cient and practical in construction and can be manufactured at relatively low cost and sold at a reasonably low profit.

Telephone or electric wire cords which are relatively pliable and yet have a certain amount of stiffness from one source of connection to another are sometimes bunched or fall in a mass, and not only become entangled with other objects, but also get entangled throughout their lengths, which is not only untidy but causes difiiculty, when a lamp or telephone may be moved any great distance from its source of connection, or

rather from its plug.

It is therefore another purpose of the invention to provide a coiler of this kind, which may be used for coiling the electric wire cord or wire, so as to provide a neat arrangement of the cord or wire, in order to avoid an untidy appearance and to prevent entanglement.

Still another purpose is to provide a coiler, consisting of a guide block to be held in one hand, together with a wire coiling rod mounted in the guide block, with means to attach the cord or wire to the rod, so that by rotating the rod (which has a crank handle), the wire cord may be coiled neatly to a small compass.

It is to be understood that the particulars herein given are in no way limitative, and that while still keeping within the scope of the invention, any desired modification of details and proportions may be made in the construction of the appliance according to circumstances.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts to be hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of the improved coiler constructed in accordance with the invention, showing the guide block in one hand and the crank handle grasped by the other hand, with a wire cord coiled upon the coiling rod; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view ingq rod in position.

eferring to the drawings, 1 identifies a guide block to be grasped in the left hand of the operator, and is provided with a longitudinal bore or hole 2, and engaging within the bore is a coiling rod 3. The guide block may be of any size and of any shape, while the bore or hole may be of any diameter.

The coiling rod may be of any length or any diameter, which would enable a wire cord to be coiled to any length; the convolutions of the coil therefore can be of any diameter.

One end of the coiling rod has a crank 4, which has a knob or handle 5. The knob or handle and the crank can be of any construction, and of any length.

Extending laterally of the coiling rod at a point adjacent the crank is an open hookeye 6, with which a wire cord 7 may engage, the terminal plug 8 of which may assume a position adjacent the open hook-eye, to prevent the wire cord from being detached while the wire cord is being coiled upon the coiling rod.

In operation the wire cord may be connected to the open hook-eye, with the plug adjacent thereto, and then the crank may be rotated by grasping the handle 5, and as the coiling rod revolves it may be moved gradually out from the guide block, and the wire cord will therefore coil upon the coiling rod and arrange itself in a coil which may be of any suitable length. In this manner the wire cord can be arranged in a very small compass allowing it to take up very little room and prevent it from being entangled with itself or with any other object.

As the wire cord is being coiled, the end of the guide block guides the wire cord upon the coiling rod, and it is possible to move the block toward the cord as it is being coiled, so as to arrange the convolutions tightly against each other.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed is:

1. A portable hand-operated tool for coiling electric wire cords, comprising a guide block adapted to be grasped in one hand and 7' I provided with a guide bore formed longitudinally therethrough, a rotatable element operable in the bore and havin means'to attach an electric wire cord, whic may coilion the i element between saidmeans and one end of may be coiled on the latter. 7

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by which an electrlc wire cord can be attached 1 to the element, sothat the cord can coil on the it elementbetween the block and the eye,,one

end ofthev element beyond the e yehaving a 40 crank to be graspedin the otherhand for rotating the element, the element being loosely mounted the bore whereby reci rocating 'moyements vmay be im arted on the lock and the element, the bloc moving toward the v crank andyice versa, so that the conyolutions can behammered close together between the .eye and. oneendo'f theblock.

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